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no. 52 May 2009 ISSN 1750-9874

Newsletter of the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research
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MASS DIGITISATION PROJECTS
Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch, Regensburg after 1491. MS Cod. Pal. germ.

832, fol. 16r. See Karin Zimmermann’s article, pp. 4-6.
© By kind permission of the University Library of Heidelberg
© Mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
AMARC Newsletter no. 52 May 2009
CONTENTS
AMARC matters 2 Courses 20

Mass digitisation 3 Exhibitions 21
Personal news 8 New accessions 23
Projects 9 Publications 26
Conferences 12 Websites 28
Lectures 20 MSS News 29
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receive two copies of mailings, have of time spent on administration.
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staff to meetings at the members’ • AMARC GRANTS
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are available from The Association can currently offer
www.manuscripts.org.uk/amarc .
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Enquiries about membership should both:
be addressed to the Membership • bring AMARC and its activities
Secretary: to a wider audience and
Mrs Clare Brown • support the stated aim of
AMARC Membership Secretary AMARC: to promote the
c/o Lambeth Palace Library accessibility, preservation and
London SE1 7JU archives of all periods in
clare.brown@lpl.c-of-e.org.uk
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Please let the Membership collections in Great Britain and
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Annual subscription rates (April- applications from fully paid-up
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add £7 extra to cover bank charges) holding conferences and
Please send your payment to : workshops.
Dr Michael Stansfield • Support for small projects such
AMARC Treasurer as the web-publication of
c/o Durham University Library unpublished catalogues of
Palace Green manuscripts.
Durham DH1 3RN. • Assistance to scholars in
Payment by standing order is obtaining reproductions or
welcomed. Forms can be obtained undertaking essential travel as
from the Membership Secretary or part of projects whose aims are
Treasurer and are also available on in line with those of AMARC.
the website. If more members with
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• The provision of equipment, such grant was put. Full details appear on
as perhaps book supports, to the AMARC website.
facilitate access to manuscripts. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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• Assistance with the necessary Many thanks to all contributors to

purchase of manuscripts and this issue, including the following
archives to benefit the AMARC whose contributions are
community. unattributed: Susan Davies, E. Wyn
• Carrying out conservation work James, Bart Jaski, Peter Kidd,
on manuscripts and archives. Martine Meuwese, Loretta
NB Funds will NOT be made Pamment, Pamela Robinson, and
available towards the cost of Patricia Stirnemann. Thanks are
commercial publication but will be also due to the University Library
allocated where they can be of Heidelberg, the Roderic Bowen
expected to provide the greatest Library, University of Lampeter,
benefit to the greatest number of and the British Library for the use
people. Often this will be achieved of photographs.
by making several small awards The views expressed herein are
rather than a few larger awards. those of the Editor and other named
Funding levels may vary from year contributors. In addition to
to year, but it is anticipated that the contributions from named
Committee will make awards of not individuals, information has been
more than £1000 each, and of not taken from a variety of websites,
more than £3000 in total each year. press releases etc., the accuracy of
Applications should comprise: a which cannot be guaranteed. You
brief outline if the project, are advised to confirm details,
conference or work; its overall cost; especially if travelling to events or
the grant being sought; the names exhibitions.
and addresses of two referees; DEADLINE for publication in
details of the addressee for the Issue no. 53 is 1 September 2009.
cheque. Applications should be Please send your articles or any
submitted to Dr Michael Stansfield, news of interest to AMARC
AMARC Treasurer, c/o Durham members to the editor:
University Library, Palace Green, Dr Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan:
Durham DH1 3RN or Rhos Fach, Brynafan, Llanafan,
m.m.n.stansfield@durham.ac.uk at
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Aberystwyth SY23 4BG, Wales.
any time during the year. They will c.lloydmorgan@btopenworld.com
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usually be considered at the next Images submitted should be at least

Committee meeting (usually held in 300 dpi and delivered on CD or via
April and October) and successful e-mail.
applicants will be informed soon AMARC WINTER CONFER
thereafter. ENCE, LONDON
Successful applicants will be Mass Digitisation Projects:
required to submit for publication in Current Experience and Future
this newsletter a brief report (300- Prospects.
500 words) of the use to which the British Library Conference
Centre, 15 December 2009.
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This well-attended conference language. It consists of 849 codices

provided a forum for lively dating from the late 9th to the early-
discussion on a number of issues of 17th century (see illustration on
concern to curators and users of front cover). Its origins go back to
manuscripts and archives, as well as 1386, when the University of
providing news of recent and Heidelberg was founded by Elector
ongoing digitisation projects. Ruprecht the First. During the
Summaries of two of the papers, following centuries the collegiate
those by Dr Karin Zimmermann of library of the Heidelberg
Heidelberg University and by Dr Heiliggeistkirche (Church of the
Susan Whitfield of the British Holy Ghost) and the private book
Library, are given below. The collection of the Palatinate Electors
content of the talk by Guy Grannum, were incorporated into the growing
of the National Archives, on ‘Your University Library, until it became
Archives: capturing users’ the biggest and most famous library
knowledge of archival sources’ in Germany. During the Thirty
( http://yourarchives.nationalarchives
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.gov.uk/ ), UHis available at the Vatican Library in Rome, where
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
HU nearly all its non-German
documents/rkwinter2008.pdf . UH manuscripts and all the prints are
Other papers were given by Dr still kept today. In 1816, after the
Rebecca Rushforth (Corpus Christi Napoleonic wars, the German
College, Cambridge), on ‘Making manuscripts were returned to
and Using the Parker Library on the Heidelberg, where they are
Web Project’ preserved in the University Library.
( http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/parke
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r/) ; Stephen Rigden, National

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Library of Scotland, on ‘The John valuable old books, that are often in
Murray Archive Digitisation Project: a fragile condition, and to make
progress through experience them easily available to a wider
( http://www.nls.uk/jma/index.html
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); Dr Juan Garcés, curator of the years ago to digitise the whole
Codex Sinaiticus Project, the British collection. This digitisation project
Library ( www.codexsinaiticus.org ),
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on British Library MSS 2.0: possible began in March 2006 and was
scenarios.’ supported by the Manfred-
Lautenschläger-Stiftung
Digitisation of the German- ( www.manfred-lautenschlaeger-
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language Palatina Manuscripts stiftung.de/standard/ ). Within three

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Karin Zimmermann, University years all German manuscripts of the

Library Heidelberg. Bibliotheca Palatina have been
The Bibliotheca Palatina at digitised; in total about 270,000
Heidelberg is regarded as one of the pages and 6,500 miniatures. That
most valuable collections of means that one digital facsimile of a
medieval and early modern manuscript was released each
manuscripts in the German working day. Without the
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sponsorship, and with only the the workflow of digitisation and

library’s normal budget, the project web delivery of our manuscripts
would have lasted over 20 years. (and prints).
Meanwhile all 849 digitised The program generates the online
manuscripts are online and all pages images, but with its help we can
with miniatures are indexed. also monitor the long-term
From the opening page of the archiving of scans and metadata.
project’s website ( http://palatina-
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digital.uni-hd.de ) there are links to
UH depicts every single step of the
the online presentation of the workflow, so we are always able to
manuscripts, to a short text about the monitor the progress of digitisation
history of the Bibliotheca Palatina, and delivery of a manuscript or
to information about the project and print.
so on. The digitised manuscripts are For the web presentation we use
listed in shelfmark order. METS and MODS. The metadata
Project resources allowed us to use can be harvested via OAI-interface,
two book-tables, which meant we which means that other projects can
could simultaneously make progress easily participate in our digitisation
with our digitisation project and work. We are a member of the
process orders from external clients. Open Archive Initiative (OAI) as a
To ensure both the best protection of data provider, e.g. we are listed in
the fragile objects and the highest OAIster ( http://www.oaister.org/ )
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efficiency we used two so-called or BASE ( http://www.base-

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‘Graz book-tables’ to digitise the search.net/ ). Furthermore, we strive

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manuscripts. The images were to list our digitised manuscripts as a

captured by several fully-trained whole in different national as well
student assistants. as international databases, e.g.
The book-tables permit non-contact, Manuscripta Mediaevalia:
direct digitisation. The codex is ( http://www.manuscripta-
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accurately positioned with the aid of mediaevalia.de/ ), Manuscriptorium

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a laser beam, so that the camera is ( http://www.manuscriptorium.com )

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always at right angles to the , ENRICH

manuscript and distortion is ( http://enrich.manuscriptorium.com
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minimized. The pages are fixed one ),

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at a time with low pressure suction ( http://www.europeana.eu/ ).
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and the aperture angle is reduced to We archive the original data of the
a minimum. scans together with the metadata in
In 2008 we revised the workflow for METS-XML-format in the TSM
digitisation and web delivery and (Tivoli Storage Manager) archiving
implemented current standards. system at the data-processing centre
Furthermore, we optimized the in Heidelberg. To monitor the
visual presentation of the digital processes we regularly monitor the
facsimiles and adopted the corporate checksum and the existence of the
design of Heidelberg University. data. In addition, the data are
Our IT department developed a new archived at the data processing
program, called D-Work, to manage centre in Karlsruhe.
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On the screen the user will find the deserted and left to be blanketed by
book easy to leaf through, and with a covering of sand. This resulted in
convenient ways to navigate, as is the preservation of tens of
usual nowadays. The actual thousands of manuscripts stored in
codicological descriptions are also Buddhist stupas, archives and
provided online as pdf-files. There is rubbish heaps. They are in over
a link to our picture database twenty languages and scripts, from
HeidICON ( http://heidicon.ub.uni-
HU several major language groups
heidelberg.de/ ), where users can find
UH including Indo-European, Semitic,
all images indexed and described; Altaic and Sino-Tibetan.
this fund of medieval illustrations These form an amazing cache, but
provides a wealth of information for the discovery in 1900 of a complete
scholars in all fields. Buddhist library comprising over
As an additional, valuable resource 40,000 ‘volumes’ dating from the
for scholars, we digitise research 5th to the 11th centuries, and hidden
literature about our historic since AD 1000, has almost eclipsed
collections, for example historic them. Their format is also varied,
catalogues and editions of the texts. from 30m long scrolls wrapped
Where possible we implement OCR around a wooden roller and secured
and full-text searching of the with a silk tie, to large ‘pothi’
digitised research literature. In 2009 leaves within wooden boards,
we will offer a user interface in various wooden documents and
English language. Contact: early codex forms.
Zimmermann@ub.uni-
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heidelberg.de .
UH diverse. The majority are Buddhist
scriptures (sutra), philosophical
The International Dunhuang texts and rules for monastic life, and
Project: Recombining A Silk Road among these are important
Library apocryphal and lost texts as well as
Susan Whitfield, The British the earliest dated printed document
Library in the world, a copy of the Diamond
(See illustrations on p. 35). Sutra in Chinese dating to AD 868
Background
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In the first millennium AD the oases printing industry). There are also
kingdom skirting the Taklamakan many non-Buddhist documents,
Desert in present-day western China from literary and philosophical
and the empires that surrounded and texts, social and economic
sometimes subsumed them were, on documents and scientific and
the whole, cultures with rich literary medical works.
traditions. Moreover, the knowledge On hearing of the discovery of the
of paper-making was spread forgotten civilisations of the
throughout the region. Other media Taklamakan at the end of the 19th
were also available for writing, most century, archaeologists from around
especially wood, but also leather, the world vied to go there. Major
birch-bark, palm leaf and silk. Over expeditions were mounted by
time, the oasis towns were gradually British, German, Russia, French,
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Japanese, Swedish and Finnish Digital data sharing and IPR

scholar-explorers and these brought IDP’s partners worldwide produce
the finds to the interest of Chinese shared standardised metadata across
scholars. As a result, the contents of subject areas. The dataset and
these Silk Road sites and the images are held on the local server
Dunhuang Library Cave are and only representatives of the
scattered in institutions throughout holding institution can add, edit or
the world. In many cases, the same delete their data. Each data block is
manuscript is split between two or tagged with a unique identifier with
even three or four collections. The a prefix which gives its location.
cave’s contents have never been The data blocks are sent to all the
studied as a whole. other servers in constant
The International Dunhuang synchronisation. Each server
Project (IDP) therefore in effect contains a backup
IDP was formed in 1994 following a of the dataset.
meeting of curators and conservators No attempt has been made to
from all the major collections of the transfer copyright in the images.
manuscripts worldwide with the aim The collaborating institutions give
of collaboration together to preserve IDP permission to serve JPEG
and make this archaeological legacy images through the database and
more accessible. The Directorate website. IDP is keen to promote
was placed in the British Library and wider and more easy access to
plans were immediately put in place images for non-commercial
to secure funds to design and build a purposes and it is therefore using
database to hold catalogues and Creative Commons licenses for new
images for the manuscripts and other images created by IDP.
artefacts. In 1998 the preliminary Multilingualism and Unicode
data became freely accessible online IDP stores and serve multilingual
with the launch of the English metadata to enable as wide as
language version of the IDP website access as possible. However, the
( http://idp.bl.uk ). Over the past
HU UH slow development of Unicode
decade, IDP has grown and Standard has hampered progress in
synchronised datasets are now this area. In addition, even with
served through multilingual websites Unicode 5 we have the issue of
hosted on servers in China, variant characters in Chinese
Germany, Japan, Russia and, in manuscripts which are not in the
2009, France and Korea. code set, and scripts which do not
Digitisation is only a part of IDP’s yet have a Unicode font.
activities, too many to mention here, Maintaining standards and quality
but covering conservation, across institutions worldwide
cataloguing, research and It has always been a core aim of
educational projects. Here I shall IDP that we would work
summarise three of the issues collaboratively, sharing work and
relevant to manuscript digitisation skills between all the institutions.
projects that we have encountered This has meant a considerable
over the past decade. investment in training, dealing with
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different institutional practices and manuscripts, as well as

sometimes frustration in finding and Nonconformist records. He was
maintaining suitable staff appointed Head of Special
worldwide. However, it has resulted Collections in 2002 and Head of
in a wide dissemination of skills Acquisitions in 2005. Dr Maredudd
which have already been used by ap Huw succeeds Mr Ifans as the
some participating institutions for NLW’s representative on the
other projects. AMARC Committee.
Funding Obituary
IDP has been largely externally The death has been announced of
funded from its inception. IDP’s Helmut Friedlaender of Manhattan,
continued existence is testament to a book-loving lawyer and financial
its success in this area, but it has adviser, aged 95. His collection of
been a great struggle at times and early printed books and illuminated
diverted energy from core work. IDP manuscripts attracted much interest
has not compromised, despite at Christie's in April 2001, when
pressure, with quality and we have most of his important collection,
insisted on keeping up with which he had assembled over the
technology, thus requiring previous 30 years, was auctioned
considerable expenditure on off. The books and manuscripts sold
equipment. However, by ensuring (559 lots) included one of the first
that all staff have a technical classical texts ever printed, Cicero's
expertise, we have avoided costly De Officiis printed in Mainz,
technical mistakes and consultancy Germany, in 1465; a 14th-century
fees. illuminated manuscript of St.
Where we are now, and the future Gregory's Moralia in Job in its
As of April 2009, IDP offers online original doeskin binding, from
over 200,000 high-quality images of Bohemia. Some items later
over 60,000 manuscripts. 70% with reappeared on the market and were
basic catalogue records. 50% with repurchased by the seller.
full records. By 2014, with Helmut Friedlaender was born in
continued funding, we hope to have 1913 in Berlin, the son of a
over 95% of the Dunhuang Library prominent lawyer. He fled Germany
Cave contents reunited virtually and in 1933 and studied administrative
accessible to all. law at Lausanne. After emigrating
to the United States he began a
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career in investment banking.
Retirement During World War II, he worked as
Mr Dafydd Ifans retired in April as an announcer for the Voice of
Head of Acquisitions at the National America, broadcasting to Europe,
Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. He and in 1944 became an adviser to
joined the Library in 1972, and spent the philanthropist William
most of his career as Assistant Rosenwald.
Keeper in the then Department of Helmut Friedlaender helped to
Manuscripts and Records, where he finance the six-volume, 3,000-page
specialised in literary archives and catalogue of the incunabula in the
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Bodleian Library at Oxford The books are compelling too in

University, which was published in terms of their individual features; of
2005. The Library awarded him its particular note is Rawlinson D.
Bodley Medal the same year. 1220, a parchment manuscript of
the late-15th century, which is
PROJECTS richly decorated throughout with
The Wise Book of Philosophy and colourful miniatures and several
Astronomy: Manuscripts at the full-folio illustrations depicting the
Bodleian Library Oxford. signs of the zodiac and the
Report by Dr Carrie Griffin, NUI preoccupations of the months. Here,
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of the Wise Book’s debate section is
English, University College, Cork, accompanied by illustrations of the
Ireland. two philosophers engaged in a
I recently received funding from discussion of predestination and
AMARC to complete one crucial free will. Additional B.17 is a small
stage of what is a larger project: the quarto in a red, half-morocco
first full critical edition, under binding (165x120 mm), in which
preparation for the Middle English the Wise Book is accompanied by a
Texts series, of the Middle English text on the twelve zodiacal signs,
Wise Book of Philosophy and each illustrated with tiny gilded
Astronomy. The Wise Book – extant miniatures in red, green and blue.
in 33 late-medieval manuscripts – The other texts – the Wise Book, the
was certainly one of the most Book of Destinary, and a Latin tract
widely-read, frequently copied, entitled Duodecim sunt signa – are
instructional/scientific texts in the richly peppered with decorated and
vernacular, and its surviving illuminated initials and red and blue
witnesses are a material testament to paraphs; the overall impression is
the wide variety of readers and that both the texts and the book
audiences who copied, annotated, were extremely valuable to the
abridged and used the information onetime patron/owner.
contained in it. The eight Wise Book Of interest too, of course, are the
manuscripts held at the Bodleian more workmanlike manuscripts
Library, Oxford are not just an making up this particular repository.
important repository of witnesses to The Wise Book copy of Ashmole
this text, but can also be said to 1477 (which can be dated to around
represent a cross-section of physical 1415 by an inscription) was made
evidence of the many readers, by one ‘Wyllyam Gynnes’, who
compilers, audiences and discourse evidently decided that he needed
communities who had access to this only part of the text since he
text from the 14th century well into discards certain sections and re-
the 16th. As such, the manuscripts arranges at will. However, this
manifest considerable variation of version has been bound together
form, materiality and content, and with several receipt- and household
taken together certainly bear witness books that were apparently in use
to a wide and heterogeneous public until late in the 17th century, and
for the Wise Book. has various signatures and marks of
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ownership, indicating both male and Williams. For further information

female users, throughout. In many contact: Professor Phillipp
ways, composite manuscripts like Schofield, Department of History
this one, containing fragments of and Welsh History, Aberystwyth
texts from different centuries, can be University ( prs@aber.ac.uk ).
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perplexing to theorise; however,

given that the Wise Book was never Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
circulated in print, they provide München: Digitisation of
evidence that it was preserved, read Incunabula
and interpreted (in the sense that it Information provided by Bettina
was bound with texts that can Wagner.
broadly be described as ‘useful’) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
well beyond the age of manuscript. is currently funding a project for the
Along with thanks for the generous digitisation of the incunabula of the
support of AMARC, I wish to thank Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
the staff of the Bodleian Library who München (BSB), which comprises
helped greatly in ensuring that my c. 9700 editions in more than
research trip was pleasant and 20,000 copies and constitutes the
profitable. largest collection world-wide in
Medieval Welsh Seals Project
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A new collaborative research project digitise one copy per edition.
will focus on over 5000 medieval Since the beginning of the project,
seals relating to Wales and held in digital images of more than 1100
the collections of the National incunabula have been made freely
Library of Wales. The project, available online. The can be
funded by an AHRC research grant accessed in several ways:
of £499,000, will be conducted 1. OPAC ( http://www.bsb-
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jointly by the history departments at muenchen.de/ ) Short records of all

UH
the universities of Aberystwyth and digitised incunabula have been

Bangor, in partnership with the integrated into the Bavarian Union
Institute of Medieval and Early Catalogue (Gateway Bayern) and
Modern Studies, which promotes the local OPAC of the BSB.
collaborative research between the However, these records do not
two universities. As well as contain the same level of detail as
exploring themes such as the the BSB's printed and electronic
significance of the visual testimony incunable catalogue (BSB-Ink, see
provided by the seals, the research below, 3). You can search for
project will also involve digitising catalogue numbers in BSB-Ink and
selected seals from the collection, GW via the ‘freie Suche’, placing
making it more accessible to the them in inverted commas (e.g..
general public and creating a ‘BSB-Ink M-149’ or ‘GW
travelling exhibition based on the M19909’).
collection. The project will also The digital images can be accessed
build upon excellent earlier work, under ‘Weblinks’ or the URL/URN.
including cataloguing by Welsh From Gateway Bayern, the button
historians, most especially Dr David ‘SFX’ (in the bottom right-hand
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corner) offers a connection to the digitisation, as far as is feasible in

full record in the online database of the project workflow. In the current
BSB-Ink. phase of the project, primarily
2. Digital collections: illustrated and German incunabula
http://www.digital-
HU as well as unique copies will be
collections.de/index.html?c=kurzsa digitised. It is intended to continue
mmlungen&l=en . Here, in order of
UH the project for the entire collection
projects, will be found lists of (in one copy per edition).
incunabula which have been Special attention must be drawn to
digitised, sortable in alphabetical or the unique copy of the
chronological order or by Türkenkalender from the workshop
shelfmarks. of Johannes Gutenberg himself, the
The current project is listed under: earliest incunable in German
Incunabula ( http://mdz10.bib-
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printed in December 1454, which
bvb.de/~db/ausgaben/uni_ausgabe.ht was recently digizited from the
ml?projekt=1157526886 ). UH
original – a ‘Liber Eximiae Raritatis
All incunabula digitised in other et inter Cimelia Bibliothecae
projects which have already been asservandus’ in the words of the
completed, such as ‘Book Bavarian historian Andreas Felix
illustrations (woodcuts) of the 15th von Oefele (1706-80)
century’, ‘Early modern broadsides’ ( http://mdzx.bib-
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(if before 1501) and the ‘Gutenberg bvb.de/bsbink/Ausgabe_M-

Bible’, are already accessible via 149.html .
UH
BSB-Ink online. Durham University Library

3. BSB-Ink online: http://www.bsb-
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JISC Sudan Archive Digitisation
muenchen.de/Inkunabeln.181.0.html UH
Sheila Hingley of DUL reports:
The electronic catalogue of In the summer of 2008 Durham
incunabula was converted from the University Library successfully
printed version, published by the applied for a JISC Enriching Digital
Reichert-Verlag Wiesbaden, of Resources grant. The grant has
which 6 volumes have appeared enabled DUL to purchase a high
since 1988. All digitised images of spec digital camera in order to
incunabula are successively create images of scarce but very
integrated into this database, which well-used printed material and maps
contains the most detailed from the Sudan Archive. High
descriptions (both bibliographic and quality preservation images are
copy-specific data). In the course of stored offline whilst lower
the current project, iconographic resolution versions of the images
data (IconClass and keywords) are will be displayed on the DUL
created for illustrated incunabula; website, freely accessible to anyone
these can be searched via the in the world. The impetus for the
function ‘Bildsuche’. project came from requests from
The BSB constantly strives to scholars overseas, particularly from
respond to suggestions for the Sudan, for online access to
improvements in the online Durham’s complete sets of printed
presentation and for candidates for reports detailing the work of the
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Sudan government during the generation to the next, and their

Anglo-Egyptian Condominium. numerous annotations give a sense
Recent treaty negotiations have of individual women's experiences.
meant that this material has been in With their limited circulation, they
great demand as evidence for allowed their compilers the freedom
boundary commissions. This use has to explore their interests in a way
been in addition to heavy scholarly unthinkable in published works.
use by researchers from the UK and Conversely, however, they also
abroad. served to reinforce social norms,
The first volumes of the Governor- providing a role model for the next
General's Reports are now accessible generation of women.
from the project web pages at In addition to full-text cover to
http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/asc/pro
HU cover scans the Wellcome is
jects/jiscsudan/ and will soon be
UH indexing with the aim ultimately of
joined by the rest of the Reports and providing intellectual access to the
the maps. individual recipes.
The Wellcome Library digitises its
17th-century manuscript recipe CONFERENCE REPORTS
books Le Comité International de
Richard Aspin reports: Paléographie Latine
The Wellcome Library in London London, 2-5 September 2008
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has one of the largest collections of Report by Pamela Robinson.

early modern English manuscript Hosted by the Institute of English
recipe books in existence. There are Studies, University of London, the
some 300 such compilations, dating conference’s chosen theme,
from 1606 to the late 18th century. ‘Teaching Writing, Learning to
Over 70 of the earliest manuscripts Write’, attracted an audience of 110
have recently been digitised and the delegates from twenty-six countries.
scans are accessible via the Library’s A much-appreciated grant from
on-line catalogue at AMARC generously helped to
http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk .
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support this event.
These books contain more than just The speakers were Paolo Fioretti
culinary recipes. They cover healing, (Bari University) ‘Ink writing and
cosmetics, religious and intellectual ‘a sgraffio’ writing in Ancient
interests, family and social networks, Rome: from learning to practical
and household and veterinary use’; Jacqueline Austin
management. The disconcerting mix (Birmingham University) ‘Librarii
of culinary and medical recipes in qui docere possint: scribal training
Grace Acton's 1621 volume is in the Roman army’; Paul Antonio
typical: her flamboyant recipe for (scribe, London) ‘Re-writing: new
roast peacock is followed by an alternatives to old hands’; David
unappetising cure for bed-wetting Ganz (King’s College London)
that involves feeding a child a mouse ‘Early medieval cursive scripts:
boiled in urine. calligraphy and risk’; Martin
The manuscripts are accumulations Steinmann (Binningen,
of knowledge passed from one Switzerland) ‘Writing monks in the
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Middle Ages’; Aliza Cohen-Mushlin texts (14th-15th centuries)’; Maria

(Hebrew University of Jerusalem) do Rosário Morujão (Coimbra
‘A School for Scribes’; Michael University) ‘Apprendre à ecrire
Clanchy (Institute of Historical dans le Portugal médiéval. Bilan
Research) ‘Was writing taught, des connaissances’; Jesús Alturo
along with reading, to children (Barcelona University) ‘De la
through the ABC primer?’; Berthold Carolina a la Gótica. Variedades,
Kress (Corpus Christi College usos y functiones de la escritura en
Cambridge) ‘The alphabets of Paul la Catalunya altomedieval’; Carmen
Lautensack – from elementary del Camino Martínez (Seville
school to divine revelation’; Patrizia University) ‘Aprendizaje y modelos
Carmassi (Herzog August gráficos: entre el ámbito profesional
Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel) ‘Lettere e y el privado’; Irene Ceccherini
scrittura nell’insegnamento (Florence University)
grammaticale del Medioevo’; Alison ‘Insegnamento, funzione e
Stones (Pittsburgh University) ‘The diffusione sociale della scrittura a
Valenciennes Papias and learning in Firenze nei secoli XIII e XIV’;
the grammar school in thirteenth- Cristina Mantegna (Universitá di
century France’; Beat von Roma ‘La Sapienza’) ‘Scritture di
Scarpatetti (Stiftsbibliothek St practici, scritture di giuristi,
Gallen) ‘A young scholar’s despair – scritture “di dotti”: “scuole” ed
thirty-three lamentations in a Basle esperienze grafiche a confronto’;
Donatus manuscript of the 14th Erik Kwakkel (Victoria University,
century’; Charles Burnett (Warburg British Columbia) ‘Disobeying the
Institute) ‘Learning to write rules: unconventional scribal
numerals in the Middle Ages’; practices in the later Middle Ages’;
Annina Seiler (Zurich University), Elizabeth Danbury (University
‘Latinis regulis barbara nomina College London) ‘Late medieval
stringi non possunt, or, how to write English chancery clerks: learning to
the vernacular’; Alessandro Zironi write and writing to impress’; and
(Ferrara University) ‘Reading and Lucy Sandler (New York
writing Gothic in the Carolingian University) ‘“Written with the
age’; Åslaug Ommundsen (Bergen finger of God”: fourteenth-century
University) ‘The first Norwegian images of scribal practice in the
scribes and their teachers’; Erik Lichenthal Psalter’.
Niblaeus (King’s College, London) The proceedings also included an
‘Learning to write in Southern open session in which delegates
Sweden: liturgical fragments and the heard brief reports of projects in
creation of a culture of the book’; progress. The Comité is patron of
Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson two reported upon: the international
(Stofnun Árna Magnússon, series of catalogues of dated and
Reykjavik) ‘Reading and writing in datable manuscripts written in the
medieval Iceland’; Jerzy Kaliszuk Latin alphabet from earliest times to
(Bibliotheka Narodowa, Warsaw) 1600 and an international lexicon of
‘Latin script and vernacular text in codicological terms, of which an
the Middle Ages: the case of Polish overview was given by Denis
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Muzerelle (Institut de recherche et Receptions held in the Great Hall at

d’histoire des textes, Paris). Reports Lambeth Palace and the Wellcome
were also received from Ian Doyle Library afforded further
(Durham) on the progress of both opportunities to view manuscript
projects in the UK and from Hana exhibitions specially mounted for
Pátková (Charles University, delegates. And some of us on the
Prague) on the Central European Saturday after the conference
palaeographical vocabulary. visited the libraries of the
Communications on web-based Fitzwilliam Museum, Corpus
projects were ‘The Digital Christi College and St John’s
Scriptorium’ (an image base of College, Cambridge, where we
medieval and renaissance were warmly received. If I might
manuscripts held in various single him out, Christopher de
institutions in the USA), Hamel, AMARC’s Chairman, gave
‘Handschriftencensus’ (an inventory an inimitable introduction to the
of the manuscript transmission of treasures of the Parker Library.
German medieval texts), stylus Plans for publication of the
inscriptions in St Gall manuscripts, proceedings are underway and it is
the Lancelot-Grail Project, and hoped that the resulting volume will
GRAPHEM (a grapheme-based be ready in time for the Comité’s
approach to medieval palaeography). next colloquium to be held in
As well as hearing about script and September 2010 at Ljubljana on the
books, delegates had a feast for their theme of ‘Medieval Autograph
eyes. Through the generosity of the Manuscripts’.
Norwegian collector Martin Art, Academia, and the Trade: Sir
Schøyen, we had an unique Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962)
opportunity to view a one-day Cambridge on 7-9 December 2008
exhibition of some of his Stella Panayotova reports:
manuscripts. Items on display from This conference, held with generous
this notable private collection support from AMARC,
included an early-second-century accompanied the exhibition ‘I
writing tablet discovered at turned it into a Palace’: Sir Sydney
Walbrook, London, in 1934; late Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam
eighth- and ninth-century specimens Museum, which marked the
from various Carolingian scriptoria; centenary of Cockerell’s
and a twelfth-century homiliary from appointment as Museum Director.
the church of the Holy Sepulchre, While the exhibition was devoted to
Jerusalem. Cockerell’s enormous impact on the
No conference is complete without Fitzwilliam’s collections, building
its round of receptions. We were campaigns and public image, the
fortunate to host one for the launch conference explored his wider and
of Malcolm Parkes’s latest book, diverse roles in the academic world,
Their Hands before Our Eyes: A in the art, manuscript and book
Closer Look at Scribes (Aldershot: trade, and in the consolidation of
Ashgate Press, 2008). Copies sold private and public collections in
like the proverbial hot cakes! England, North America, and
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Australia from the 1890s until the composite Melbourne institution in

1950s. 1936, he struck the Trustees there as
Christopher de Hamel opened the ‘vain, aggressive and somewhat
conference with an overview of quarrelsome.’ In addition to his
Sydney Cockerell’s extraordinary official responsibility to identify
capacity for friendship with and negotiate desirable acquisitions
manuscripts as well as people. While for Melbourne, Cockerell suggested
Cockerell invited old friends and thorough changes of the display and
new acquaintances to ‘tea and management, based on his
books’, he conversed, corresponded successful innovations at the
and travelled with numerous Fitzwilliam Museum, and
manuscripts, expanding the pantheon recommended that the conglomerate
of his ‘confidants’ to include should be dissolved into three
Renaissance humanistic texts and institutions. He met his equal in Sir
modern calligraphy. William Keith Murdoch, a Trustee of the
Stoneman, explored the pre- Library, Museums and Gallery, who
Fitzwilliam career of Sydney shared Cockerell’s energy and
Cockerell, with special emphasis on vision, and carried out his plans for
his involvement in building the the future of the Melbourne
medieval manuscript collection at institutions.
the Boston Public Library. Stella The Conference delegates enjoyed
Panayotova focused on Cockerell’s visits to St John’s College, the
unique acquisitions strategy at the Parker Library at Corpus Christi
Fitzwilliam Museum, combining his College, the Wren Library at Trinity
first-rate scholarship with intimate College, the Pepys Library at
knowledge of the trade and a vast Magdalene College and the
network of friends among the Founder’s Library at the
leading artists and private collectors Fitzwilliam Museum, where
of the day. Richard Linenthal Jonathan Harris, Christopher de
presented Sydney Cockerell as a Hamel, David McKitterick, Richard
book businessman in the context of Luckett and Stella Panayotova
the trade during the first half of the prepared special displays of
twentieth century. He traced illuminated manuscripts, fine
Cockerell’s development from his printed books, literary autographs,
training under William Morris in the prints and drawings associated with
1890s through his relationship with Sydney Cockerell, his
Bernard Quaritch to the dispersal of contemporaries in Cambridge, and
his own collection and the sale in the distinguished guests whom he
1951 of a long-lost Gutenberg Bible, introduced to the treasures in
Sir Sydney’s greatest bookselling Cambridge libraries.
coup. Shane Carmody examined The Conference proceedings will be
Sydney Cockerell’s impact on the published in a special issue of the
collections of the Library, Museums Transactions of the Cambridge
and Gallery in Melbourne. When Sir Bibliographical Society later in
Sydney was appointed the London 2009.
Adviser to the Felton Bequest of the
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FUTURE CONFERENCES Levon. Zekiyan (Venezia):

Charles the Bold ‘Dialogue interculturel au Moyen
Bruges, 12-14 May 2009. Âge’; Cecilia Martini (Padova):
This event is linked to the current ‘Les traductions au Moyen Âge’;
exhibition on Charles the Bold Nadja Germann (Freiburg im
(details on p. 22). Rather than Bresgau): ‘Histoire des sciences’;
focusing on a single domain, the Michel Brand (Los Angeles),
conference aims to shed light on ‘Histoire de l’art’; Carmelo G.
Burgundian court culture as an Conticello (Paris): ‘Théologie et
organic whole, between the start of philosophie’; Remie O. Constable
the reign of Philip the Good (1419) (Notre Dame University): ‘Histoire
and the death of Mary of Burgundy religieuse et sociale’. There will
(1482). It is intended to provide a also be a table ronde on
forum for new research from the manuscripts and archives, led by
fields of History, History of Art, Marc Smith (Ecole des Chartes,
Literature and Musicology. To this Paris). Shorter papers will be given
end, two plenary assemblies will on a wide variety of themes. For
present a multidisciplinary approach further information visit
to the topics of ‘Power of/and http://web.letras.up.pt/fidem/ .
HU UH
representation’ and ‘Feast culture’, ‘Divers Manuscripts both Antient

while a number of specialised & Curious’: Illuminated
sessions will allow in-depth Treasures from the Harley
exploration and discussion of more Collection
specific aspects of the conference British Library Conference
theme. For information contact: Centre, London, 29-30 June 2009
symposium@brugge.be) .
HU UH
Announced in Newsletter 51.
Studies in the Exeter Book Showcasing new research on
Institute of English Studies, manuscripts in the Harley
University of London, Senate collection, the conference will be of
House. 19-20 June 2009 particular interest to art historians,
Topics to include Scriptorium; artists, manuscript scholars,
Exeter; Palaeography; Codicology; palaeographers, and historians of
Patronage; Reception; History and medieval and Renaissance studies,
Context; Texts; Authorship(s); material culture, and libraries.
Literary Contexts; Textual Editing. Keynote speaker: Jeffrey
Proceedings will be edited. Hamburger, Kuno Francke
Contact: Ruth Kennedy Professor of German Art & Culture,
(r.kennedy@rhul.ac.uk). Harvard University; special
IVe Congrès européen de la demonstration by Patricia Lovett,
FIDEM professional scribe and illuminator;
Coexistence et coopération au Other speakers: Professor Richard
Moyen Âge/Coesistenza et Gameson, Dr Marie-Thérèse
cooperazione nel Medieoevo Gousset, Dr Frances Harris,
Palermo, 23-27 June 2009
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Professor Anne Hedeman, Dr
The programme is now available and Colum Hourihane, Dr Deirdre
includes plenary lectures by Borghos Jackson, Professor James Laidlaw,
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Dr Julian Luxford, Dr Francesca Following the main theme of the

Manzari, Dr Marigold Anne Norbye, conference ‘Libraries create futures:
Maud Perez-Simon, Sarah Pittaway, Building on cultural heritage’,
Dr Kathryn Rudy, Dr Joerg papers will focus on the following
Voellnagel, Alison Walker, Dr themes:
Hanno Wijsman, Dr Catherine Dispersed cultural collections,
Yvard. Further information and covering libraries and other
registration (deadline 1 June 2009): collections formerly held by
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illumin
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atedmanuscripts/welcome.htm . UH which were dispersed through
NB: Reduced registration fee for political events (wars, dissolution of
AMARC members. monasteries) or through auctions
The Harley Manuscripts currently and duplicate sales, and are today
online can be accessed via held in various public institutions or
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illumin
HU in different sections of such
atedmanuscripts/welcome.html . UH institutions. The dispersed materials
may be in different formats
Edward Lhuyd International (manuscripts, printed books,
Conference: Language, Literature, archival documents, photographs)
Antiquities and Science and may date from any period.
Centre for Advanced Welsh and Preservation and conservation,
Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 30 dealing with aspects of the physical
June – 3 July 2009 assessment of an object for the
To mark the tercentenary of the better understanding of its contexts,
death of the great Celtic scholar with special regard to provenances.
Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709), author The role of the conservator will be
of Archaeologia Britannica (1707), considered, including procedures
the Centre will host a major for preserving and documenting
international conference to evaluate features relevant for the history of
his most significant contributions to an item during conservation, e.g.
scholarship. A selection of materials provenance marks and former
relating to Lhuyd will be exhibited at shelfmarks.
the National Library of Wales from Reconstruction will cover
29 June to 21 August to coincide identifying individual items which
with the conference. For further once belonged to such a collection;
details, contact Dr Angharad Elias, investigating the survival of
University of Wales Centre for historical collections; or
Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, maintaining inventories or archives
Aberystwyth, SY23 3HH of collections that have been
( a.elias@wales.ac.uk ).
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methods of reconstruction, i.e.
IFLA Rare Books and through identification of
Manuscripts Section, provenances, through matching of
Preservation and Conservation historical inventories with surviving
Section, Library History Section items, or through digitisation as
Milan, 23-27 August 2009 well as methods for the creation of
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virtual libraries or databases of Department of Greek and Latin

dispersed materials. Studies, Charles University,
Access refers to questions Prague, August 24-26, 2009
concerning the needs of target- The term miscellany can refer to a
groups of such projects (from number of concepts. Medieval
researchers to the general public), catalogues of manuscripts often use
the standards applied for cataloguing the term miscellanea for the
and presentation and problems of ‘leftovers’ impossible to classify in
overcoming heterogeneous standards a simple way. Many of the
for diverse materials; technical miscellaneous codices might have
solutions for their presentation; and originated in this way; by binding
also raising awareness and funds for together various texts. On the other
such projects. hand, a miscellany can be a very
Emphasis will be placed on issues of carefully designed codex serving a
project management and particular purpose. The most
methodology, e.g. policies regarding frequent cases are those in between,
preservation and digitisation; that is, miscellanies which may be
standards for cataloguing and interpreted as designed but whose
recording provenances; cross- origin might also have been
institutional cooperation (national random.
and international). Materials Workshops will focus on the
presented will be placed in a broader following themes:
cultural-historical context in order to Composition: How do the contents
demonstrate their relevance to a fit together in specific cases? Is
wide range of (academic) subjects there a plan or a reason behind? If
and users, taking up the IFLA theme so, what does the selection tells
for 2007-9, ‘Libraries on the about the compiler’s interests?
Agenda’. Contact: Bettina Wagner, Authorship: To what degree are the
Rare Books and Manuscript Section miscellany compilers and gatherers
chair, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek authors? Is there a personal touch
( bettina.wagner@bsb-
HU discernable and interpretable? Use:
muenchen.de ); UH Per Cullhed, How were these manuscripts
Preservation and Conservation actually used? Can a specific use of
Section chair, Uppsala University a particular miscellany be detected?
Library ( per.cullhed@ub.uu.se )
HU UH Keynote lectures will be given by
Hermina G.B. Anghelescu , Library Kimberly Rivers (Univ. of
History Section chair, Wayne State Wisconsin, Oshkosh, U.S.A.) and
University ( ag7662@wayne.edu ). A
HU UH Greti Dinkova-Bruun (Pontifical
small number of grants for Institute of Mediaeval Studies,
conference attendance may be Toronto, Canada). Workshop
available (further information at languages are English, French, and
www.ifla.org/III/members/grants.ht .
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conference fee. Limited funds are
Medieval Manuscript available to support the travel and
Miscellanies: Composition, accommodation expenses of
Authorship, Use: Workshop at the selected participants (priority will
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be given to scholars from Eastern Amsterdam, 22-28 August 2010

Europe). Contact: Further details and a provisional
dolezalova@cts.cuni.cz
HU UH programme of papers are now
14th Biennial Conference of the available at www.ichs2010.org .
HU UH
International Graphonomics
Society XVIIth Colloquium of the Comité
Dijon, 13-16 September 2009 International de Paléographie
Graphonomics denotes the scientific Latine, Ljubljana, 7-10
and technological effort involved in September 2010
identifying relationships between the Medieval Autograph Manuscripts
planning and generation of The autograph manuscripts of
handwriting and drawing medieval authors are important
movements, the resulting spatial sources for the history of writing
traces of writing and drawing and for what they tell us about the
instruments (either conventional or different working methods of such
electronic), and the dynamic features authors. Modern palaeographical
of these traces. Palaeography will be research and the cataloguing of
one of the themes of this multi- manuscripts have both brought to
disciplinary conference. See light a number of ‘new’ autograph
http://www.graphonomics.org/igs20
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manuscripts. With few exceptions,

09/ . UH
however, only the autograph

12th International Seminar on the manuscripts of well-known authors
Care and Conservation of have been the object of more
Manuscripts intensive palaeographical or
University of Copenhagen, Faculty codicological study. Most
of Humanities autograph manuscripts have not yet
14-15 October 2009 received the attention that they
Announced in Newsletter 51. deserve.
The seminar, focusing on various CIPL’s XVIIth Colloquium will
subjects related to the care and focus on the following themes:
conservation of manuscripts in the 1. Different states of autograph
widest sense, is arranged by the manuscript.
Arnamagnæan Commission, The 2. Collaboration between authors,
Arnamagnæan Institute and The secretaries, and copyists.
Royal Library, and organised by M. 3. Palaeographical aspects.
J. Driscoll and Ragnheiður 4. Codicological aspects.
Mósesdóttir (The Arnamagnæan 5. Autograph manuscripts of
Institute) and Ivan Boserup and different kinds of text.
Marie Vest (The Royal Library). 6. Particular or exceptional cases
Further information will be posted (autograph manuscripts ‘par
on the website of the Arnamagnæan personne interposée’, multiple
Institute: autograph manuscripts of the same
http://english.arnamagnaeansk.ku.dk
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work, manuscripts illuminated by

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the author, princely and papal

International Congress of autograph manuscripts, autograph
Historical Sciences
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manuscripts attributed to saints, curator of Greek manuscripts, BnF,

anonymous autograph manuscripts). and Jannic Durand, musée du
7. The status of autograph Louvre.
manuscripts in the Middle Ages, the 23 June 2009: ‘L’Ecume des jours
value attributed to autograph de Boris Vian’, Anne Mary, BnF,
manuscripts in the Middle Ages, the with a binding specialist. All
transition of the medieval autograph welcome.
manuscript to the ‘modern’ For further information, contact:
autograph. thierry.delcourt@bnf.fr
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For more information contact

Pamela Robinson, Secretary-General COURSES
( pamela.robinson@sas.ac.uk )
HU UH
London Palaeography Summer
School, 22-26 June 2009
LECTURES & SEMINARS Full details are now available at
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON http://ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/cou
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The Annual Palaeography Lecture rses/SummerSchool/index.htm . UH
will be given by Professor Vincent

Gillespie (Tolkien Professor of SCRIPTO III for Postgraduate
English, Oxford) on 21 May 2009 in Students, 26 October 2009–27
the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, and January 2010
entitled ‘Fatherless Books: SCRIPTO (Scholarly Codicological
Authorship, Attribution, and Research, Information &
Orthodoxy in Later Medieval Palaeographical Tools) is a
England’. For further information Postgraduate Programme at
contact cmps @sas.ac.uk .
H H Friedrich Alexander University in
Erlangen-Nuremberg supported by
PARIS, INSTITUT NATIONAL the Luise Prell Foundation, the
DU PATRIMOINE Schirmer Foundation, the
Trésors du patrimoine écrit: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in
Manuscrits de la BNF à la loupe Munich and the Herzog August
Auditorium Colbert, 2 rue Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, open to
Vivienne, 75002 Paris, 6pm graduate Medievalists and Early
The Bibliothèque Nationale de Modern Specialists. It offers a
France and l’Institut National du systematic, research-oriented
Patrimoine continue their series of introduction to the study of
lectures on treasures from the medieval and early modern
library’s manuscript collections. manuscripts and to methods of
Drawing on the specialised describing and interpreting them.
knowledge of expertise of curators, SCRIPTO bridges research and
art historians, textual specialists and practical work, combining research
conservation staff, the lectures and instruction within the
provide a rare chance to see a framework of a uniquely innovative
number of original manuscripts. The course, at the end of which each
last in the series will be: candidate will be awarded a
26 May 2009: ‘Jean VI Cantacuzène certificate from Friedrich Alexander
(ms. Grec 1242’, Christian Förstel, University.
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SCRIPTO consists of six modules Applicants accepted for the course

covering a broad spectrum of will be charged a fee of 850 €
subjects (text typology; book (includes travel and accommodation
illumination; palaeography; for seminars outside Erlangen). and
codicology; incunabula studies; will receive a document stating the
informatics). Research seminars will terms of agreement and detailed
include one given by Rosamond information about the course,
McKitterick (Cambridge) at including the timetable.
Bamberg. Participants will also have
the opportunity to work on a 0B EXHIBITIONS
common research project. Information has been drawn from
The SCRIPTO programme is press-releases and websites as well
supported by the German as contributions from our members
Manuscript Centres in Berlin, and colleagues. Please check
Frankfurt, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart opening dates and times and other
and Wolfenbüttel. The course will details before travelling as these
take place in cooperation with the may vary from those given here.
manuscript departments of Erlangen ABERYSTWYTH, NATIONAL
University Library, the Bayerische LIBRARY OF WALES
Staatsbibliothek in Munich, the City Awduron Cymru/Writers of
Library in Nuremberg and the Wales
Herzog August Bibliothek at 3 January–5 December 2009
Wolfenbüttel. The sessions will take An exhibition celebrating the work
place in Bamberg (Staatsbibliothek), of author Kate Roberts (1891-1985)
Erlangen (Universitätsbibliothek), and poet Dylan Thomas (1914-53).
Munich (Bayerische The first in a series of exhibitions
Staatsbibliothek), Nuremberg featuring the most prominent
(Stadtbibliothek) and Wolfenbüttel authors of Wales.
(Herzog August Bibliothek). For Family History
further information see 14 March 2009–March 2010
http://www.mittellatein.phil.uni-
HU
The exhibition will give an
erlangen.de/scripto/scripto.html .UH
introduction to the sources available
Applicants should write enclosing a in the Library and guidance for
full CV to: Prof. Dr. Michele C. family historians on how to use
Ferrari, Friedrich-Alexander- them.
Universität, Mittellatein und P. B. Abery: Photographs of
5B
Neulatein, Kochstr. 4/3, 91054 Radnorshire

Erlangen, Germany. 21 March–14 August 2009
Deadline for applications: 31 An exhibition celebrating the
August 2009. The language of photographic talent of Percy Benzie
instruction is German. Foreign Abery (1877–1948), who spent 50
participants, however, will be able to years recording every aspect of life
take German language courses at in the counties surrounding his
Friedrich Alexander University if studio in Builth Wells. The
they so wish. They should mention photographs in this exhibition
this in their application. represent a small selection from the
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thousands of images and negatives Scottish theatre’s early 1970s’

held by the Library. ‘revival’, spearheaded by the work
Treasures from the Peniarth
6B of 7:84 Theatre Company
Collection (Scotland), to the recent successes
May–November 2009 of the National Theatre of Scotland.
An exhibition to celebrate the Zig-Zag: The paths of Robert
centenary of the Library’s opening, Burns, part of the Homecoming
and of its acquisition of the rich Scotland 2009 celebrations
foundation collection of manuscripts organised by the National Library
from Peniarth, Meirionnydd. A small of Scotland and the National
selection of early treasures will be Galleries of Scotland, is touring
displayed, including manuscripts Scotland throughout the year, in
collected by the antiquary Robert Aberdeen until Easter 2009, in
Vaughan (c. 1592-1667) of Hengwrt. Dumfries in the summer months &
in Glasgow University in the
BRUGGE/BRUGES, autumn.
GROENINGEMUSEUM,
Charles the Bold (1433–1477) NIJMEGEN, MUSEUM HET
27 March 2008–21 July 2009 VALKHOF
( www.museabrugge.be )
HU UH Het Getijdenboek van Catharina
Announced in Newsletter no. 51. See van Kleef [The Book of Hours of
http://www.kareldestoute.info/. For
HU UH Catherine of Cleves]
information on the related 9 October 2009–3 January 2010
international conference in Bruges, The most spectacular Book of
12-14 May 2009, see p. 1 6.
H H Hours painted in the Northern
Netherlands disbound for
EDINBURGH, NATIONAL conservation and facsimile will be
LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND on view first in Nijmegen, and later
Scots Music Abroad
9B on, also in New York, Morgan
6 March–23 May 2009.
10B Library and Museum. The
A Home away from Home: the exhibition in Nijmegen will also
experience of Scottish Emigration. highlight medieval life in Gelre
26 June–10 October 2009. with contemporaneous objects.
Examining the experiences of Scots
who left their homeland in search of UTRECHT, MUSEUM
a new life abroad, and explores how CATHARIJNECONVENT
new communities were forged for Beeldschone boeken. De
overseas while still retaining a Middeleeuwen in goud en inkt
strong Scottish identity. [Beautiful Manuscripts. The
Scottish Theatre: The Cheviot, Middle Ages in gold and ink]
The Stag and The Black, Black
Watch (provisional title).
early December 2009–early 2010
(pending confirmation).
An exhibition looking at Scottish
drama of the last 40 years. From
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May 16, 2009 - August 23, 2009

1B Thomas of Ringstead, Expositio in
Some 100 manuscripts made in
2B parabolis Salomonis, France, 14th
medieval Utrecht (c. 695-1528) will cent. (Christie’s London, sale 12
be on display. Most items are from November 2008, lot 25) (NLW MS
the collections of Utrecht University 23986D).
Library (which celebrates its 425th Lewis Johnes, manuscript Welsh
anniversary this year) and the poems, written c. 1575-1625 on
Catharijneconvent, but the exhibition preliminary blank leaves of a
also showcases international loans. printed edition of the Decretales of
The focus is on the 14th and 15th Gregory IX (NLW MS 23985A).
centuries; both illuminated and Thomas Telford, letter to an agent
unillustrated manuscripts will be for the inn at Bangor Ferry, 20 July
included. See 1816, relating to surveying work for
www.catharijneconvent.nl .
HU UH a new road to be constructed
Illustrated catalogue: Beeldschone towards the present Menai
Boeken. De Middeleeuwen in goud Suspension Bridge (NLW MS
en inkt (in Dutch, with summaries in 23980).
English). ISBN 978904085819.
DUBLIN
NEW ARRIVALS
3B
TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY
Librarians, archivists and users are Major accessions February 2008-
invited to inform the Editor of any February 2009, submitted by
notable new accessions to Bernard Meehan, Keeper of
institutional collections. Manuscripts.
ABERYSTWYTH, NATIONAL Four bifolia from German liturgical
LIBRARY OF WALES manuscripts, 12th century, all
Submitted by Maredudd ap Huw, recovered from bindings. Sotheby’s
Manuscripts Librarian. Western Manuscripts sale, 4 Dec
Thomas Sopwith, field notes and 2007, lot 3. (TCD MS 11295/1-4).
sketches for a survey of the Volume of sermons, in Latin, Italy,
mountains of Moelwyn Mawr and mid-14th century. Same sale, lot 62.
Moelwyn Bach, Meirionnydd, 1865 (TCD MS 11296).
(NLW MS 23982C). St Antoninus Florentinus,
Sir John Salusbury Piozzi, adopted confessionale, Italy, mid-15th
son of Gabriel and Hester Lynch century. Same sale, lot 63. (TCD
Piozzi, four autograph letters to the MS 11297)
Rev. Thomas Raffles, 1841 St Anselm, leaf from Prayers and
(Bloomsbury Auctions, 16 October meditations.12th century. Purchased
2008, lot 157) (NLW MS 23984). from Quaritch. (TCD MS 11306).
Dylan Thomas, an unpublished letter Psalter. Delft, c. 1450. Christie’s
to his agent Nancy Pearn, 19 Sale 4 June 2008, lot 43. (TCD MS
February 1945, agreeing to the 11308).
broadcast of a poem in memory of Dimaldutius of Forli (fl 1336).
his aunt (Bonham’s London sale, 4 Sermons. 14th century. Same sale 4,
November 2008, lot 429) (NLW MS lot 39. (TCD MS 11309).
23981).
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Noted offices for the sick, dying and Whyte’s sale, Dublin, 5 April 2008.
dead. Brabant, second half 15th (TCD MS 11298).
century. Same sale, lot 52. (TCD MS Childers, Erskine (1870-1922).
11310). Notes as Naval Intelligence Officer,
Ambroise, l’Estoire de la guerre WW1. Same sale (TCD MS 11299).
sainte. 13th-century fragment.
Sotheby’s sale 8 July 2008, lot 4. EDINBURGH, NATIONAL
(TCD MS 11325). LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND
Bede, gathering of four leaves from Significant accessions for the period
De muliere forti. France or September 2008 – February 2009,
selected by Kenneth Dunn.
Germany, mid-9th century.
Letter-book, 1763, of Andrew
Purchased from Quaritch. (TCD MD
Lumsden. (NLS Acc.13018)
11334).
Calligraphic fretwork manuscript,
St Ambrose, Hexameron. Italy,
1780, made by Thomas Hunter,
Lombardy 1446. Sotheby’s 3 Dec
Edinburgh, of the Ten
2008 sale, lot 28. (TCD MS 11335).
Commandments, the Our Father &
Four Gospels, in Ge’ez. Ethiopic,
the Apostles’ Creed. (NLS
mid-17th century. Same sale, lot 63.
Acc.12997)
(TCD MS 11311).
Album of sketches, c. 1838-1850s,
Fragments of Coptic textiles, 3rd-5th
of Anna Margaret Carr, illustrating
century. Christie’s sale Paris, 4-5
Scottish scenery & buildings. (NLS
March 2008, Ancienne collection
Acc.12988)
Charles Gillot (1853-1903). (TCD
Memoirs, c. 1910–82, of Rev.
MS OBJ/2008/1-10).
Donald J. Gillies (1901-94),
Irish establishment for 1684. English
concerning life on St Kilda before
Treasury payments to Ireland.
the evacuation of the last residents
Adams/Mealy sale, Dublin, 15 April
in 1930, his emigration to Canada
2008 lot 616. (TCD MS 11302).
and his pastoral work in Vancouver.
Barker Ponsonby (addnl), 3 boxes of
(NLS Acc.12991)
family papers 17th-19th century
Notebook, 1942-73, of W.S.
from Kilcooly Estate, co Tipperary.
Graham containing drafts of poems
(TCD MS 11312).
and a radio play, with notes &
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) satirist,
illustrations. (NLS Acc.12979)
author, Dean of St Patrick’s
Three scrap-books, 1947-60,
Cathedral, ‘Stella’s MS. Word
containing photographs and
book’. Bequeathed by Dr Arch C
ephemera of Nicholas Fairbairn
Elias (TCD MS 11324).
(1933-95), one-time Conservative
Patrick Magee (1922-82) actor.
MP for Perth & Kinross. (NLS
Letters from Samuel Beckett,
Acc.13022)
Sotheby’s sale,17 July 2008, lot 185.
Eight ledgers, 1973-2008, of
(TCD MS 11313).
Alasdair Gray, containing diary
Material relating to Patrick Magee
entries, draft letters and literary
and his career. Same sale, lot 186
notes and drafts relating to stories,
(TCD MS 11314).
poems, plays and the novel Old
Beckett, Samuel. Postcards, and
Men in Love; with six corrected and
envelopes to Eileen O’Casey.
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annotated typescripts, 2008, of Letters of Daniel Defoe to his

Fleck, a play. (NLS Acc.13021) daughter and son in law, 1728-
Papers, 1998-2008, of the Dionysia 1729. (Add. 88618).
Press. (NLS Acc.13010) Papers relating to Pitcairn Island,
Literary papers, 2003-6, of Doug 1877-1903. (Add. 88619).
Johnstone (b. 1970), relating to Alan Clodd/Kathleen Raine papers,
Tombstoning & The Ossians. (NLS 20th cent. (Add. 88620-88674).
Acc. 12999) Kathleen Raine papers, late 19th
Original artwork, including cent.–2003. (Add. 88675-88787).
preliminary sketches and two Kathleen Raine notebooks, 20th
versions of the cover, of Cam cent. (Add. 88788-88791).
Kennedy’s graphic edition of Harold Pinter Archive, 1943-2008.
Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr (Add. 88880).
Jekyll and Mr Hyde which was Ronald Harwood papers, 20th cent.
published in 2008. (NLS (Add. 88881).
Acc.12986). J.L. Garvin papers, late 19th-20th
cents. (Add. 88882).
LONDON, BRITISH LIBRARY Dukes of Cambridge papers, 18th-
Submitted by Michael St. John 20th cents. (Add. 88883).
McAlister of the Department of
Manuscripts Music Manuscripts
Working papers of Francis Falconer Information supplied by Nicolas
Madan, c.1920s-1961. (Add. 88473- Bell.
88481). Music manuscripts of Muriel
Correspondence and papers of Al Herbert, presented by her daughter,
Alvarez, 1948-2000. (Add. 88482- Mrs Claire Tomalin.
88611). Music manuscripts of Geoffrey
Letters to Elizabeth Compton from Winters, presented by the
Ted Hughes, 1963-1976. (Add. composer.
88612). Music manuscripts of Sydney Vane,
Letters to Jack Brown from Ted bequeathed by the composer.
Hughes, 1981-1998. (Add. 88613). Letters from Dame Myra Hess to
Letters, etc, to Peter Keen from Ted Howard Ferguson, presented by
Hughes, 1976-1985. (Add. 88614). Hugh Cobbe.
Papers relating to the publication of Ralph Vaughan Williams: materials
River, collaborative poetry project, relating to ‘Pilgrim's Progress’,
1978-2004. (Add. 88615). ‘Sancta Civitas’, and other lesser
Letters to Terence and Ohna works, purchased at Sotheby's, 3
McCaughey from Ted Hughes, Dec. 2009.
1956-1998. (Add. 88616). Correspondence, concert
Letters and literary manuscripts sent programmes and other papers of the
by Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and pianist Harriet Cohen (1895-1967),
others to Glyn Hughes, 1956-2001. bequeathed by Dr Percy M. Young
(Add. 88617). (1912-2004) and supplementing the
correspondence received by the
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British Museum from the estate of A Descriptive Catalogue of the

Harriet Cohen in 1968. Medieval Manuscripts of Merton
Leoš Janáček: autograph manuscript College, Oxford, with a description
draft of eight bars from Act I of The of the Greek Manuscripts by N.G.
Makropoulos Case, presented by the Wilson, R. M. Thomson (D. S.
Friends of the British Library on the Brewer, to appear May 2009). ISBN
occasion of Lynne Brindley being 9781843841883.
made DBE. The Design and Distribution of late
SOME RECENT Medieval Manuscripts in England,
PUBLICATIONS ed. Margaret Connolly & Linne R.
Bibliographical details are as given Mooney (Woodbridge: Boydell &
by contributors, press releases or Brewer, 2008).
websites and the amount of Gautier de Coinci, Miracles, Music
information is variable. and Manuscripts, ed. Kathy M.
‘Une acquisition de la Bibliothèque Krause& Alison Stones (Turnhout:
du roi au xviie siècle: les manuscrits Brepols & Oakville CT: David
de la famille Hurault’, M.-P. Brown, 2008).
Laffitte, Bulletin du bibliophile, Illuminated Manuscripts in
2008 (1), 42-97. Cambridge. Pt. 1: The Frankish
Abstractions of Evidence in the Kingdoms, the Low Countries and
Study of Manuscripts and Early Germany, ed. S. Panayotova & N.
Printed Books, Joseph A. Dane Morgan (Turnhout: Harvey Miller-
(Farnham: Ashgate, 2009). ISBN Brepols, scheduled for March
978-0-7546-6501-4. 2009). ISBN 978-1-905375-47-9.
A Bibliography of the Welsh Law Images de musiciens (1350-1500).
Manuscripts, Meinir Elin Harris, Typologies, figurations et pratiques
([Llanfarian]: Seminar Cyfraith sociales Martine Clouzot
Hywel, 2006). (Turnhout: Brepols & Oakville CT:
Book of Beasts: A facsimile of MS David Brown, 2008).
Bodley 764, introduction by C. de David H. Williams, Images of
Hamel (Oxford: Bodleian Library, Welsh History: Seals of the
2008). ISBN 1851243178. National Library of Wales
Books as History: the importance of (Aberystwyth, National Library of
books beyond their texts, David Wales, 2007) ISBN
Pearson (London & New Castle, 9781862250628
Del.: British Library & Oak Knoll An Index of Images in English
Press, 2008). Manuscripts from Chaucer to
‘La collection Gaignières: méthodes Henry VIII [vol. 6], Cambridge,
et finalités,’ A. Ritz-Guilbert, Christ's College, Clare College,
Bulletin monumental, t. 166-4 Corpus Christi College, Emmanuel
(2008), 315-38. College, Gonville and Caius
A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek College and the Fitzwilliam
Manuscripts at St John's College, Museum, Ann E. Nichols (Harvey
Oxford, Mark L. Sosower, (Oxford: Miller-Brepols, 2009). ISBN 978-1-
St John’s College Research Centre, 905375-37-0.
2007).
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Introduction to Manuscript Studies, Brill, 2008) ISBN 9789004169821

Raymond Clemens & Timothy (www. brill.nl).
Graham, (Cornell University Press, La Passion du livre au Moyen Age
2007). Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet,
‘Un inventaire des ornements (Editions Ouest-France, 2008).
liturgiques et des livres de l'église ‘Parures et bijoux de la reine
Notre-Dame des Tables à Isabeau de Bavière’, E. Taburet-
Montpellier (6 septembre 1492)’, J.- Delahaye, Bulletin de la Société
L. Lemaître, Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires (2002),
nationale des Antiquaires, 2002, 242-69.
207-11. The prayer book of Charles the
Klosterreform und mittelalterliche Bold, Antoine de Schryver, trans.
Buchkultur im deutschen Südwesten, Jessica Berenbeim (LA: J.P. Getty
Felix Heinzer (Mittellateinische Museum, 2008)
Studien und Texte 39, ‘Le retable au chanoine du Musée
Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2008). 618 pp., de Laon’, Villela-Petit, Bulletin de
ills., ISBN 978-90-04-16668-4. la Société nationale des
The Literary Manuscripts and Antiquaires, 2002, 104-16.
Letters of Hannah More, Nicholas St Margaret's Gospel Book: The
D. Smith, (Aldershot: Ashgate, Favourite Book of an Eleventh
2008). Century Queen of Scots, by
Memory's Library: medieval books Rebecca Rushforth (Oxford,
in early modern England, Jennifer Bodleian Library Publishing, 2007)
Summit (Chicago, Ill. & London: ISBN: 1851243704.
University of Chicago Press, 2008). Science translated: Latin and
Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel, vernacular translations of scientific
Merlants Rijmbijbel in Museum treatises in Medieval Europe, ed.
Meermanno. De kracht van Michèle Goyens & Pieter De
woorden, de pracht van beelden. Leemans (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia.
Met vertalingen uit het Series 1, Studia 40; Leuven: Leuven
Middelnederlands van het University Press, 2008). ISBN 978-
handschrift 10 B 21, Karina van 90-5867-671-9.
Dalen-Oskam & Willem Kuiper Singing with Angels. Liturgy, Music
(Den Haag: Museum Meermanno- and Art in the Gradual of Gisela
Westreenianum, 2008). von Kerssenbrock (Turnhout:
‘Miracle et charité: autour d'une Brepols & Oakville CT: David
image du Livre du Biadaiolo Brown, 2008).
(Florence, Bibliothèque Storie di artisti. Storie di libri.
Laurentienne, ms. Tempi 3)’, V. L'editore che inseguiva la belleza.
Rouchon Mouilleron, Revue Scritti in onore di Franco Cosimo
Mabillon, n.s., t. 19 (= t. 80) (2008), Panini (Roma: Donzelli editore,
157-89. 2008), ISBN 978-88-6036-297-1.
The Palaeotypography of the French Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott.
Renaissance. Selected Papers on English Medieval Manuscripts and
Sixteenth-Century Typefaces by their Readers, ed. M. Villalobos
Hendrik D. L. Vervliet (Leiden: Hennessy. ISBN 978-1-872501-08-
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6. (Turnhout: Harvey Miller- Michael Calabrese, Hoyt N.

Brepols, scheduled May 2009). Duggan & Thorlac Turville-Petre
Contributors: Jonathan J.G. (Boydell & Brewer, March 2009).
Alexander, Linda L. Brownrigg, ISBN 9781843840923 (individual
Christopher de Hamel, Lynda licence); 9781843840916
Dennison, A. I. Doyle, A.S.G. (institutional).
Edwards, J.B. Friedman, Phillipa
Hardman, Marlene Villalobos WEBSITES & ONLINE
Hennessy, George R. Keiser, Jeanne RESOURCES
Krochalis, Ann Eljenholm Nichols, Breton scribes
Michael T. Orr, Derek Pearsall, P. A useful list of Breton scribes of the
.R. Robinson, Lucy Freeman 14th and 15th centuries is now
Sandler, and Michael G. Sargent. available at http://pagesperso-
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‘“Unus mediator Dei et hominum”’. orange.fr/pecia/copistes_et_librai

A propos d’une image de la seconde res_bretons_au_moyen_age_272.
venue dans le psautier Morgan 106’, htm . UH
J. Zietkiewicz-Kotz, Scriptorium, t.
LXII (2008), pp. 169-76. British Library Online Catalogue
‘You shall surely not die’. The of Illuminated Manuscripts
concepts of sin and death as Dr Catherine Yvard, Project Officer
expressed in the manuscript art of (Catherine.Yvard@bl.uk) reports
Northwestern Europe, c. 800-1200, that the online Glossary available as
Jill Bradley (Library of the written part of the Catalogue of Illuminated
word: 4, Leiden, Brill, 2008). 727 Manuscripts website is now fully
pp. (2 vols.), ills., ISBN 978-90-04- illustrated.
16910-4. ¤ 150. Dissertation on http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illu
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changing attitudes towards death, minatedmanuscripts/glossary.asp UH
sin and salvation, as expressed in

medieval miniatures. Erasmus online
Periodicals The Erasmus Center for Early
The final issue of The National Modern Studies, Rotterdam, now
Library of Wales Journal in printed has an online database of books by
form (volume 34, no. 2) appeared or relating to Erasmus, including
during 2008. Thereafter, the Journal many rare and early items. See
will appear in electronic format only, http://www.erasmus.org .
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via the NLW website

( http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?i
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Medieval Diplomatic
d=174 ). The earlier printed issues
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( http://www.gdr-diplomatique.net )
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will be digitised by the Library and The collaborative website of the

will, therefore, also become Groupement de recherches (GDR)
available at this website in due ‘Diplomatique’ (CNRS), was
course. launched last year. Its aim is to
Electronic Publications bring together specialists in
The Piers Plowman Electronic medieval diplomatic, a field
Archive: 6. San Marino, Huntington currently enjoying a renaissance. It
Library MS 128 (Hm and Hm2), ed. will promote joint research projects
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in diplomatic and documentary all have been digitised, will be

writing. The website will further stored off-site. Online access to the
collaboration and give a higher digital images will be available
profile to work de rebus from October 2009 via Parker on
diplomaticis. the Web
News of events, colloquia, lectures ( http://parkerweb.stanford.edu) .
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and publications both print and Library staff hope to maintain a

digital will also be provided. photographic and general enquiries
Members of the GDR (registration service throughout the closure.
online) may contribute to the site Limited access may be available to
and participate in discussions. Both selected manuscripts during this
French and English are used on the period, and researchers should
the site, but the interface is currently contact the library, giving as much
in English alone. Queries or advance notice as possible. Email
contributions may be addressed to parker-library@corpus.cam.ac.uk or
Paul Bertrand (paul.bertrand@cnrs- tel. 01223 338025.
orleans.fr) or via the link from the
website. Saturday Closing of the National
Tradlat Website Library of Wales
Tradlat (Traductions latines As a result of increasing financial
d’œuvres en langues vernaculaires) pressures, the Board of the National
is now online at Library of Wales has decided to
http://www.tradlat.org/ . The site
HU UH close the building to the public on
aims to raise awareness of Saturdays from 1 April 2009. This
vernacular translations of Latin texts unfortunate decision is part of a
and facilitate access to the ongoing package of measures which the
work of identifying and listing such Library has been forced to put
translations. The site is run by the together in order to save £250,000
‘Tradlat’ research group, which in the next financial year. The
works in association with the Europa public are set to lose the service of
Humanistica research programme. the reading rooms, exhibitions,
The site is bilingual (French and restaurant and shop, which affects
English) and includes the lucrative tourist and conference
bibliographical information as well trades as well as readers. Further
as news of conferences and events. information regarding the decision
can be found on the NLW website:
MANUSCRIPTS AND ( http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?i
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Temporary closure of Parker As the Newsletter went to press it

Library, Corpus Christi College, was announced that from May 2009
Cambridge readers and visitors will be charged
During the construction of a new for car-parking. Given the location
reading room and secure vault, the of the NLW up a very steep hill and
Parker Library will be closed from the distance from the nearest bus-
early June 2009 until Easter 2010. stop, this latest announcement has
The manuscripts, which by then will caused further public outcry, far
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from tempered by the news that the (conservation of Llangynllo

parking fee will be refundable parochial records).
against purchases in the shop or Dr Anna Buelow, Head of
café. Preservation at The National
MSS on e-Bay: Caveant emptores
17B Archives, said: ‘Wales boasts such
Consuelo Dutschke of Columbia a rich cultural heritage, and it is
University recently noticed that two wonderful to see archives in Wales
different sellers were offering on e- receive the help they need to ensure
Bay ‘manuscripts’ for which the its history is preserved. This is
seller had simply lifted images of really great news as Wales has not
manuscripts from the Digital received much funding from the
Scriptorium website. On one NMCT before.’
occasion, there were three MSS from The new initiative means that the
the Huntington Library in California; Welsh Assembly Government will
on the other occasion, the seller had match the NMCT’s £25,000 grants
attempted to cobble together images to Welsh archives for preservation
from the Royal Library in projects as part of the bi-annual
Copenhagen (images taken from its NMCT grants scheme. This scheme
own website) and from Columbia has been administered by The
University (images taken from the National Archives on behalf of the
Digital Scriptorium). NMCT since 2004, and plays an
important part in securing the future
Preserving Manuscripts in Wales of irreplaceable archival collections.
The National Archives has The new scheme is administered in
announced a new initiative that Wales by CyMAL: Museums,
brings £50,000 a year to manuscripts Archives and Libraries Wales, a
and archives in Wales. The Welsh division of the Welsh Assembly
Assembly Government and the Government. CyMAL objectives
National Manuscripts Conservation include enabling the Welsh archive
Trust (NMCT) have joined forces to services to increase their capacity to
fund preservation projects. preserve and make accessible the
This year, the new initiative has archival collections in their care and
benefited six Welsh archives: improving the quality of the
Aberystwyth University services delivered by local
(conservation of Library Planning museums, archives and libraries in
Archive); Cardiff University Wales. For more information visit:
(conservation of Edward Thomas www.wales.gov.uk/cymal .
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World War I letters); Conwy Grants such as these are awarded

Archives (conservation of bi-annually, each April and
Penmaenmawr Quarry records); October. For more information
Swansea University (conservation of about the NMCT, or to apply for
St David's Priory parish registers); one of the grants, visit:
Ceredigion Archives (conservation http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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of Florrie Hamer's collection), and /preservation/trust/default.htm .UH
Powys County Archives
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The Roderic Bowen Library and philosophical treatises (e.g. Hooke,

Archives, University of Wales, Locke, Hume, Wollstonecraft), to
Lampeter name but a few examples. (See also
Caroline Pilcher, Curator of illustration on back cover).
Special Collections, explains its In addition, the library houses a
history, holdings and place within comprehensive collection of
the university. religious and political tracts, the
(In memoriam Professor Nigel core of which dates from around
Yates, 1944-2009) 1638 to 1785 and is particularly rich
Officially opened in October 2008, in material relating to the non-
the Roderic Bowen Library and jurors, though, as examination of
Archives houses the Special the Tract Catalogue will bear out,
Collections of the University of every contemporary issue of the
Wales, Lampeter, a unique day, from accounts of duels to trials
collection of more than 30,000 for witchcraft is represented.
volumes printed between 1470 and From 1827 to 2007 these collections
1850 (including 69 incunabula) as were housed in their original home
well as 8 medieval and 100 post in the St David’s building.
medieval manuscripts. Modelled on the idea of an Oxford
The Special Collections contain a college library, with presses
substantial collection of Wales- perpendicular to the walls, the
associated materials, including early library evoked both feelings of
Welsh Bibles, prayer books, being in a much older building and
hymnals, catechisms, sermons and that of being submerged in the
ballads. Much reflects the history of the college.
University's history as a Theological Following the building of a new
college and the languages library in 1969, the original library
represented include Arabic, English, became known as the Founders’
Dutch, French, German, Greek, Library; after the three principal
Hebrew, Latin and Welsh. benefactors of the original college
Overall, however, the collections are library; namely College founder,
as broad in subject matter as they are Bishop Thomas Burgess (1756-
unexpected and delightful. They 1837), Thomas Phillips (1760-
include richly-illustrated narratives 1851) formerly a surgeon with the
of travel and exploration (e.g. Cook, East India Company and a keen
Vancouver, La Perouse, Humboldt, advocate of higher education in
Dalrymple), exquisitely-detailed Wales, and Thomas Bowdler the
architectural works (e.g. Piranesi, fourth (1754-1825), better known as
Wood, Le Roy, Nash), beautiful the ‘bowdleriser’ of Shakespeare. It
volumes of natural history (e.g. had long been realised that
Thornton, Buffon, Gould, Pennant), atmospheric conditions in the
gruesome medical works (e.g. Founders’ Library were unsuitable
Paracelsus, Bell, Fox), atlases, (e.g. for the material it housed, and after
Speed, Ortelius, Mercator), investigating whether the building
dictionaries (e.g. Johnson, Bayle, could be adapted to comply with BS
Webster), scientific and 5454:2000, the answer ultimately
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became clear: a new home was the elements of the Special Collections
only way forward. It fell to former came the opportunity to re-evaluate
Director and Archivist of the Special certain myths about the library It
Collections, Professor Nigel Yates to had been suggested, for example,
secure funding and allay fears that that there was little method to
moving the Collections from the Thomas Phillips’s generous
Founders’ Library would in some donations generosity to Lampeter
way compromise their place within from 1834 to 1852, and that he was
the heritage of the University. simply taking advantage of the
Most of the funding for the new depressed book-market of the time.
building came from a grant from the Looking at shelf after shelf of
Higher Educational Funding Council Phillips’s donations [PHI 00001 -
for Wales, matched by the PHI 04936] indicates in fact that he
University with funding from the was mindful that students attending
generous bequest of Dr. E. Roderic Lampeter would be drawn from a
Bowen, President of St. David's fairly small catchment area, at least
University College Special initially, and that for many this
Collections from 1972-92. Far from would be their first opportunity to
compromising the place of the experience the wider world. Access
collections within the heritage of the to information about the
University, the relocation of the practicalities of the world beyond
materials and the remit to organise Lampeter was thus an important
materials into provenance groups has provision.
stimulated investigations into that An examination of one of the
heritage. donation books recording Phillips’s
To take the bequest of Bishop gifts has yielded a possible example
Burgess as an example, although to back the theory that Phillips was
much research has been carried out more ‘hands-on’ in his choices for
into the books he left to the college, Lampeter, for one item is recorded
which naturally reflected his as having been returned to Mr
personal concerns and interests, no Phillips because it had been ‘sent in
register had ever been made of the error’.
contents of his library. By grouping As well as housing the materials in
items according to provenance and a closed-access, temperature- and
assigning a running number to each humidity-controlled area, the
of the provenance collections, the Roderic Bowen Library and
sequence Bur 00001 to Bur 03370 Archive provides a spacious,
now provides, in effect, a register of comfortable reading room, easily
his books. (The Burgess collection adapted to suit the needs of
contains not only books bequeathed individual readers, seminars,
by Burgess but those given in his lectures and exhibitions. It provides
life-time and written by him, and space also for reference material,
these are distinguished within previously located in the main
individual catalogue records). library but now more appropriately
Alongside the opportunity to housed with the Special Collections.
contribute to and reinforce known The assimilation of the reference
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material into the RBLA, which is Cologne Archives Disaster

11B
still ongoing, has led to the On 3 March 2009 the six-storey

(re)discovery that elements of the building housing the Historisches
main library reference collection Archiv der Stadt Köln collapsed,
were once housed in the Founders’ after its foundations were
Library. Therefore in rehousing apparently undermined by
them we are in fact reuniting old construction work on an
companions and once again underground section of the
strengthening the place of the Stadtbahn. Neighbouring blocks of
Special Collections, and the RBLA flats were also affected and at least
as a whole, within the history of the two deaths have been reported.
University and indeed as a collection About 90% of the archival material
of national importance, reflecting as was buried under rubble and water.
it does part of the history of higher Emergency services, archive staff
education in Wales. and volunteer archivists and
The RBLA reading room is currently conservation specialists have been
open from 9.30 to 4.30, Mondays to working round the clock on the
Thursdays. The collections are open massive salvage operation.
to non-University members, on Materials stored in the collapsed
receipt of a letter or email of building included substantial and
introduction. Advance notice of a important collections of
visit is advisable, to check both the manuscripts dating from the 6th
availability of material and that of cent. onwards and charters and
the reading room. The web pages of other documents from the 10th cent
the Special Collections are yet to be onwards. Recent accessions
updated, but more about the included the extensive personal
collections can be found at archives of the writer Heinrich Böll
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/founders_lib
HU (1917-85), which had been
rary/ . The catalogue of printed
UH transferred only three weeks
books is accessible via the previously. They had not yet been
University's OPAC. The Catalogue listed, digitised or microfilmed.
includes both items in the main Ironically, Böll belonged to the
library and the RBLA, but searches postwar Trümmerliteratur
can be limited to Special Collections movement (literature of the rubble).
by selecting the ‘limit’ icon at the far An appeal has been made for
right of the ‘search box’ and then qualified volunteers and for
‘Special Collections’ within the financial assistance. For current
location option. news see www.koelner-
HU
Contact: Caroline Pilcher, Curator of stadtarchiv.de/index UH and

Special Collections, Roderic Bowen http://archiv.twoday.net/ . Contact:
HU UH
Library and Archives, University of Dr. Ulrich S. Soénius

Wales Lampeter, Ceredigion SA48 ( ulrich.soenius@koeln.ihk.de ).
HU UH
7ED; tel. 01570 424716;

c.pilcher@lamp.ac.uk
HU UH or Stalinist Era Archives Seized
18B
rodericbowenlibrary@lamp.ac.uk
HU U Archives may be politically
sensitive and thus become
33
vulnerable if they preserve testimony representatives from Cardiff

a government would prefer to University, the National Library of
conceal. The historian Orlando Figes Wales and Glamorgan Record
recently drew to a classic case in Office, regarding the future of the
Russia. In December 2008 the St special collections of rare books.
Petersburg offices of Memorial, a At the group’s first meeting on 7
human rights and historical research October, all parties agreed to ‘work
centre which had accrued substantial together to identify which items
material relating to victims and from the collection should be
survivors of the Stalinist regime, recommended to be retained in
were raided by masked men from the Wales’. The Cardiff Heritage
investigate committee of the Russian Friends produced a statement (for
general prosecutor’s office. Hard which see its website:
drives containing the entire archive www.cardiffheritagefriends.org/ )
HU UH
(including family archives, sound welcoming these discussions, but

recordings and transcripts of emphasising the importance of
interviews, and details of burial retaining the special collections
sites) were removed, together with intact as collections in Cardiff,
other materials used by Figes in his rather than ‘cherry-picking’
book The Whisperers. The head of individual items.
Memorial in St. Petersburg, Irina Following that meeting, the first
Flige, who was away at the time, has auction of books, scheduled for 4
issued a complaint to the November at Bonhams, London,
Prosecutor's Office about procedural was postponed, and Councillor
irregularities during the raid. Nigel Howells (the Executive
Memorial was denied access to Member of Cardiff Council
lawyers, and no inventory of the responsible for libraries) informed a
confiscated information was Council meeting on 16 October that
compiled by the raiders. See The ‘until this [identification] process
Guardian, 4 March 2009, The New has been finalised and implemented
York Review of Books, 15 Jan. 2009, it has been agreed that no books
www.orlandofiges.com/news.php .
HU UH will be sold’. This process is
currently still in progress.
Cardiff City Library: an update The perception among the public at
Submitted by E. Wyn James. large seems to be that Cardiff
Cardiff City Council’s plans to break Council has ‘seen reason’ and that
up City Library collections and sell the books have been ‘saved’. This is
off many of the rare books were far from being the case as yet, since
reported in the last Newsletter. it would seem that there are some in
Following intense public and the Council – despite overwhelming
political pressure, the Council public opinion to the contrary –
agreed in late September 2008 to who are intent on selling as many of
enter ‘round-table’ discussions with these rare books as possible as soon
CyMAL (the Welsh Assembly as possible.
Government’s museums, archives As documents on the Cardiff
and libraries division), Heritage Friends website
34
demonstrate, the Cardiff rare provenance when assessing a

books affair raises important book’s worth; and the
questions regarding the role of relationship between public
public libraries with respect to opinion and Council action.
heritage collections; the
significance of collections and
The International Dunhuang Project
(See Susan Whitfield’s article, p. 6).
Photograph taken by Aurel Stein in March 1908 during his Second

Central Asian Expedition. The British Library Photo 392/27(376).
35
A Buddhist sutra or sacred text from the Library cave at Dunhuang. The
British Library Or.8210/S.253.
© Photographs by kind permission of the British Library
36
‘ … NANTES IN GURGITE VASTO’

AMARC MEMBERS ENJOYING A SEASIDE HOLIDAY
‘Iachten van Wilde Beesten,’ by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605), plate
92 from Venationes ferarum, auium, piscium :pugnae bestiariorum &
mutuae bestiarum Depictae a Ioanne Stradano: editae per Nicolaum
Vischer (Antuerpiae : Apud Ioannem Gallaeum, c. 1630)
© By permission, Library Services, University of Wales Lampeter

© Trwy ganiatâd Gwasanaethau Llyfrgell Prifysgol Cymru Llambedr
Pont Steffan
See Caroline Pilcher’s article on the Roderic Bowen Library, p. 30..
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